PmWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. UseMod

General Features PmWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Version
2.6.0
2.3.13
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2026-05-16 (2 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-16 (2 months ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Alex Schroeder
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
family people, hackers
System Requirements PmWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage PmWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
No
Patch
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki Oddmuse UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PmWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features PmWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links PmWiki Oddmuse UseMod
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki Oddmuse UseMod
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Perl
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Usability PmWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics PmWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output PmWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
No
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki Oddmuse UseMod
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Extras PmWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki Oddmuse UseMod
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
N/A
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
no example known
N/A
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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